Articles by Chris Noon

I am waiting to hear back on my defence invite, but am preparing like I’ve been invited.  Solid advice any VCDX will give you. The design defence is an invitation to Palo Alto, Staines or Sydney to defend your design and run through a scenario.  In today’s blog, I am going to talk about my experience when preparing for the design defence. The design defence is you defending your submitted design.  This is a 75-minute window for you to present your submitted project and defend your design choices.  While it’s a 75-minute window, its recommended you prepare a c15-minute presentation.  The other 60 minutes will be used by the panellists to ask questions about anything relating to the submitted design. […]

To start my blogging career, I thought I would talk about my VCDX-NV journey. I’m currently in the waiting stage after submitting my documents.  Waiting for a VCDX panel to determine if my documentation warrants an invite to defend. Whilst waiting, I thought I’d take this time to share some advice that I found useful on my journey.  Firstly, read and understand the blueprint this can’t be stressed enough.  During your journey; you will find all VCDXs repeat this phrase to you, and it’s true.  The closer you get to the submission date the more the blueprint resonates. Read the submission document.  I read this at the very end, but I wish I had read it a few months before.  […]